Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

One of 21 people whose names were not reported

died March 14, 1891

A mob took eleven people from the New Orleans jail and killed them on March 14, 1891. The people taken had been held in the jail when the mob seized them. A 1919 anniversary notice in the Laredo Weekly Times marked the date of the killings.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1949 newspaper notice says a mob took him from a jail and lynched him.

Reported by: 1949 newspaper notice (reporters).

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